Unfortunately, the older box is cleanly wiped, so I can't tell if the CD drive is operational. However, I do know that the CDROM with the operating system image is fully functional because I tested it on my other computer (see post above) and it worked flawlessly.

In some cases , older cdrom's had problems with cd's that were burned.There was also a problem with some facturer of cd's because the laser of the old cdrom was to heavy an it looked throug the cd, so it didn't read on it.